Sunday, April 14, 2013

Presentation Ideas

Ideas on presentation:

Ad Fontes:

Since this is the “back to the sources” group,
is it possible to discuss our original thoughts on what the project would look
like in comparison to how it actually turned out? (eBook vs. youtube channel,
or even individual thoughts when first signing up for the class in comparison
to final thoughts now that the class is over)

How to incorporate the sources into our video,
whether by a separate video with just quotes, a link to the actual text, or a summary
of the text.

How did we incorporate current teaching ideas
(the source) into our revolutionary youTeach idea?

Plough Boys and Bibles:

I was talking to Dr. Burton last Friday because
I realized that I hadn’t even thought about my grade in this class since our
first midterm evaluation with him back in February where we discussed our
knowledge on the 6 themes. I thought that was interesting, especially
considering that I am one of those people who need to know where they stand
grade-wise in a traditional class. Did any of you have this same experience? This
actually ties in well with the Plough Boys and Bibles theme when you examine
the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism. Catholics are focused on
outward ordinances (in our case, that would be a syllabus and solid grading
system) whereas Protestants aren’t (our class, no real syllabus and no set
grading system, we were focused on the project itself and not our grade for the
project). How did this focus help us in our project, and what are the positives
and negatives that go along with this sort of learning when it comes to grades?
(Hopefully I explained that well enough for you to understand what I’m talking
about.)

The role of religion in our class

Our class had different ideas when it came to
this project. We could talk about the collaborative nature of our project and
how that mimics the importance of the individual in the reformation (this might
go better with humanism).

Thoughts from Project Guinea Pigs

13 year old boy – It was hard to read some
things, but the quizzes were more fun than my class tests even though I got
most of the questions wrong.

17 year old girl – She liked the storylines for
every theme group. The links worked. I liked it being online because I was able
to take breaks and not need to worry about missing anything.